Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Ruth Hunt talks to GP Dr ANDY KOVAC about how NHS fragmentation and the government’s obsession with gimmicks are having a devastating impact on patient care
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
TORY meddling in the NHS has turned the much-loved national treasure into an acronym-spouting, constantly fracturing, overly bureaucratic, confusing mess, which is prone to systemic failures.
For Dr Andy Kovach* who is a practising GP, the top-down reorganisation of the NHS in 2012 by the then coalition government is a big part of the problem: “Since the controversial Health and Social Care Act 2012, the NHS in England has now become a bewildering and disjointed network of public, semi-public, semi-private, private and third-sector providers,” he says.
The main thrust of the Act was to abolish primary care trusts and strategic health authorities and instead transfer responsibility and funds away from the government on to clinical commissioning groups which have to judge which provider would receive the contract for a service.
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